Lux Domini
Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.

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Interpretation

The terror and reproach of conscience, which Herod, like other daring offenders, could not shake off, are proofs and warnings of a future judgment, and of future misery to them. But there may be the terror of convictions, where there is not the truth of conversion.

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This thought runs through Matthew 14:7-11.